Halifax Museum of Immigration and John Langley

: The clothes that represent the living — of which there were very few — on the foggy early morning of May 29, 1914, according to The Chronicle Herald. Symbolic of survival, a rare story amid an all but forgotten tragedy: the ramming of the passenger ship Empress of Ireland and its deadly descent to the bottom of the St. Displayed inside a glass case at Halifax Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, exactly as worn a century ago. Lawrence River. You can just imagine the man, John Langley, wearing this, with the only thing between him and the cold St. It really powerful because items like this evoke the person, says curator Dan Conlin, guiding a tour of Canada Titanic – The Empress of Ireland, a Canadian Museum of History exhibition presented at Pier 21 for the next year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.